May 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
California utilities are ahead of much of the world in the transition to clean technology. They have a lot more rooftop solar power on the grid than many places, and they're led by progressive voters and politicians
May 27th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Hawai'i is boldly going where no other state has ever gone when it comes to pursuing its goal of 100% renewable energy by
May 21st, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has proposed that the town of Konark go the complete route to renewable, sustainable energy — 100% solar energy. That's fitting since the Konark Sun Temple is located there
May 7th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Tesla energy storage is in high demand, growing faster than Tesla can keep up. Meanwhile, solar demand is down, but much if not all of that relates to the coronavirus shutdown
May 4th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Heat pump water heaters? That's right — that was the most popular topic of the week last week on CleanTechnica. Surprised me. It's not even a Tesla product! In fact, Tesla was only in the title of 7 stories, which would be great for any other company, but is below Tesla's average
April 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
The Tesla virtual power plant in South Australia is only 2% complete but already it has proven its worth many times over while lowering utility bills for many customers.
April 6th, 2020 | by Alex Voigt
Cathie Wood, the founder of Ark Invest, has repeated many times that in a recession or economic downturn disruptive companies gain pace and expand their competitive advantage versus incumbents
March 5th, 2020 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
As California experienced uncharacteristically low precipitation in February, normally its peak rainy season, parts of the state are moving into drought conditions. This is likely to increase wildfire prevalence in the state in 2020, and it underscores the point that communities need to be thinking about a range of strategies to increase their resilience to wildfires
March 1st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The biggest CleanTechnica stories last week included four stories on the Tesla Model 3, three stories on the Model Y, two stories on Tesla batteries, and stories on a few other things
February 27th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla has been approved to reinvent the Moss Landing power plant in California as a battery power plant. In fact, it will be approximately 10× bigger than Tesla's Hornsdale, which was 3× bigger than any other battery storage facility at the time it was built
February 24th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla's secret weapon is something that many investors don't even think to consider when they think of Tesla. CNN Business reminded us that investors only think about EVs when they think about Tesla. However, Tesla's secret weapon is fueled by the same thing life on Earth is — our sun
February 24th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week involved perovskite solar cell research and projections (a hot topic for the past few — or several — years), Toyota's continued focus on hybrids (considered by many to be a death knell for the hybrid leader and 100% electric laggard), and The Boring Company's first of two Las Vegas tunnels
February 21st, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
Blue Nova Energy, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listed Reunert Group, looks to be ramping up nicely and has just launched the MegaBoy
February 14th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
This week, Tesla locked in a new patent for a distributed electrical grid management system, with capability to control everything from massive grid-scale energy storage installations down to your washing machine to keep everything humming along nicely
February 9th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
The Tesla Powerwall 2 is one of the most advanced residential energy storage systems in the world, and it all starts with the batteries. The leadership highlights the fact that Tesla is not only a carmaker, but also a major battery company that sells its batteries in a variety of form factors, including cars like the Model 3 and stationary energy products like the Powerwall
February 5th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In Sacramento — as part of a deal with the local utility, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Electrify America is putting $1.3 million into SMUD's Energy StorageShares program
December 30th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
A big part of Livingston and Conroy's pitch to the DoE was to leverage soon-to-be-commercialized oscillating disk technology in a mostly continuous tunneling model. This would entail not only having the oscillating disk cutter, but also automated ceiling bolting and shotcreting for tunnel stabilization
December 30th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Pumped storage hydro has far more resource potential than required for a fully decarbonized grid and it's cheap per megawatt-hour (MWh) of storage. The downside is that it's slow to build, capital intensive, and heavily regulated right now in the United States. The Department of Energy FAST program aims to change that
December 29th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
December 29th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
December 26th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 2nd article covers an additional six pros and cons
December 26th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 1st article covers evaporation management
December 20th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
While Jacobson's latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy
